Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This is Ima Birubi Boy. He’s no champion, but he’s not a walker either. In January last year Ima Birubi Boy was sent south to Ben Yole in Tasmania to train on a lease deal as a 1.55.4 winner at The Creek just 3 months before. He had 18 starts for Yole and managed just […]
Ben Yole is a terrible trainer. The Tasmanian based harness racer wins premierships by his sheer weight of numbers, but Yole can’t actually train to save his life. You only need look at Sunday’s upcoming meeting at Hobart to see what I mean. Yole doesn’t have a single runner in the 2-year-old events; he has […]
Something is wrong with harness racing in Queensland right now, wretchedly wrong indeed. You can see it just by looking at Grant Dixon’s results this year. The man we call Moses has won the past 6 metropolitan trainers premierships in a row. This year Moses has trained just 4 metro winners from 84 starters, at […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APC16022114.mp4 I get really sick of trainers and training teams that I believe are cheating both us punters and their professional rivals by breaking the rules of racing. Why can’t these people just be honest? If they are going to do something naughty to a horse, what’s the problem with telling us all? Obviously the […]
At exactly what point does racing a galloper excessively become an animal welfare issue? Can owners and their trainer race an aged thoroughbred week in, week out in races held on professional tracks, and still be said to care for the best interests of their horse? Those are the questions that need to be answered […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/sa/GDC01022104.mp4 Arco stepped out for her new owners for the first time last weekend – attracting the biggest crowd seen at the Gawler trials in many years. “It was fantastic. There would have been 100 members there watching her trial, including Lorraine Coombes, from Mildura, who got up at 4am to travel over and get […]
Stewards inquired into an incident reported by Cadet Steward Mr J Steele regarding an incident that he allegedly witnessed in the stabling area subsequent to race 7 involving Mr R Pullen, the trainer of GIPSY TREASURE, and Ms S Gangell, the driver of BORDER CROSS. After taking evidence from Mr Steele, Ms Gangell, Mr Pullen […]
I told you ten days ago that Steve Fletcher’s former commission agent turned NSW Deputy Chief Gallops Steward Wade ‘Lurch’ Birch was soon to be leaving that role to take up the job of top cop at the dogs. As always, our mail was delivered early and in a packet marked CORRECT. Yesterday the […]
The Apple Isle racing industry is in shock today following the news that the chief of the Office of Racing Integrity has been stood down from his role. Or it would be if anyone still had any confidence in the integrity of Tasmanian racing anyway, but after a series of blatant rigs, pulls, fixes, hooks […]